SBB Cargo France | RailFreight.com https://www.railfreight.com News about rail freight Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:58:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /favicon.ico SBB Cargo France | RailFreight.com https://www.railfreight.com 32 32 SBB Cargo International opens up shop in France https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/11/25/sbb-cargo-opens-up-shop-in-france/ https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/11/25/sbb-cargo-opens-up-shop-in-france/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:26:25 +0000 https://www.railfreight.com/?p=58100 SBB Cargo International’s newest subsidiary, SBB Cargo France, finally received its safety certificate from France from the European Railway Agency. “From the start of operations at the next timetable change, some services will be operated via France”, SBB Cargo International said.
SBB Cargo France was established last April to start providing services along the left bank of the Rhine through the French region of Alsace. This route is now becoming increasingly important as the main line connecting Basel with Karlsruhe, one of the main bottlenecks along the Rhine-Alpine axis, will not be fully expanded until the 2040s.

The newly founded company has also trained drivers from both Switzerland and France. “While one part of the team will operate national routes in future, the other part will be able to operate both national and international routes”, they specified. SBB Cargo France will be headquartered in Huningue, not too far from the French border with Switzerland.

]]> https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/11/25/sbb-cargo-opens-up-shop-in-france/feed/ 0 SBB Cargo France has no plans to take over Fret SNCF routes https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/04/15/sbb-cargo-france-has-no-plans-to-take-over-fret-sncf-routes/ https://www.railfreight.com/business/2024/04/15/sbb-cargo-france-has-no-plans-to-take-over-fret-sncf-routes/#respond Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:57:32 +0000 https://www.railfreight.com/?p=51706 A new subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways, christened SBB Cargo France, was recently established to provide services along “the French route through Alsace as an alternative to the German Rhine Valley”. A spokesperson from the company specified that there are no current plans to take over services from Fret SNCF, which is undergoing a major restructuring and was forced to give up several routes.
“That is not our focus, as our French production company is still in the process of being established”, the spokesperson highlighted when discussing a possible takeover of Fret SNCF’s sevices. The main reason behind the creation of this new entity is that “the four-lane expansion of the Rhine Valley route between Karlsruhe and Basel will continue until at least 2042”. This is just one of the main bottlenecks along the Rhine-Alpine Corridor, most of which will persist until at least 2030.

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Omar Olivier Zarkly, who is a part of SBB Cargo International and also worked with Etihad Rail and DB Cargo France, was appointed as project manager. The new company has its headquarters in Huningue, a French town bordering Basel. Information about the size of SBB Cargo France’s workforce as well as more specifics on the routes and the company’s fleet will be provided throughout the second half of 2024, the spokesperson added. SBB Cargo is already transiting through France from Basel with a connection to Antwerp, in Belgium. However, the establishment of SBB Cargo France aims at creating a connection to Germany.

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